The Section for Archival Education and Training

The Section for Archival Education and Training is an organ of the International Council on Archives (ICA) which is the international non-governmental organisation representing the interests of archives and archivists.

The ICA Section for Archival Education and Training aims to establish closer contacts among teachers of archival science and to work towards the development of methodology and preparation of tools to assist them in their teaching tasks and in their contributions to the development of the profession. Archival education and training institutions and teachers of archival science have a crucial role to play in pursuing the establishment of a discipline of archival science which is scientifically and intellectually autonomous, administratively effective, and recognised by society. Teaching and research are principal ways in which to reach these objectives.

ARCHIDIS Summer School 2011

The Archives and Records Challenges in the Digital Information Society (ARCHIDIS) Intensive Program is confronting the challenges of creating, capturing, managing and preserving corporate and social memory in our digital information society. Through a case-study approach, participants have an opportunity to apply a comparative lens to issues which are central to preventing digital amnesia: the loss of corporate and social memory through failure to appropriately manage archival records in the digital environment. The 2011 IP in Marburg has focused on Appraisal and Social Memory. Program of Summer School 2011
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Training the Trainer Resource Pack

Margaret Crockett and Janet Foster

The Training the Trainer resource pack is intended for anyone who wants some guidance or direction in planning, organising and delivering effective training for both professionals and support staff whatever their working or learning environment. The bulk of the pack addresses the various techniques for delivering training but it also covers the practical administrative tasks that are essential for successful training courses and which underpin the training content.

The Training the Trainer project was part of the ICA Section for Archival Education and Trainings Medium Term Plan for 2000-2004, when the peer review draft came out. Peer comment was incorporated and the pack was completed in December 2005. The authors, Margaret Crockett and Janet Foster, are Co-Directors of the Archive-Skills Consultancy and based the pack on their experience of delivering both training the trainer courses and archives and records management training.

During the last years, ICA-SAE has produced a lot of new translations.